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Winter 2021
This issue contains subtle demarcations of time throughout its pages: A presidential election punctuates a conversation between Gabriel Sosa and Danielle Abrams; Jenna Crowder examines a revolution on its tenth anniversary; Erin Genia offers a timeline of colonialist decline; and several writers note the months in which they penned their stories to contextualize their text. Taken together, the following pages offer a glimpse back at how the uneven progression of time shaped our understanding of the world around us. During the production cycle for this issue, our volunteer editorial board grew with the additions of editor-at-large Leah Triplett Harrington and editorial assistant Maya Rubio. At the same time, writer, poet, and educator Nakia Hill tackled curating a section of Issue 06 dedicated to celebrating Black creators. Homing in on our city, she presents Revel in Black Excellence, which composes nearly half of Issue 06, as a site for Boston-based Black writers and artists to take up space and share their voices. Though the personal essays, conversations, and critical perspectives in this section cover a range of subject matter, their messages exist in dialogue with one another. We as readers are simply invited to listen and learn.
Title
Author
Category
Letter from the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
PRINT ONLY
Nakia Hill
READ
To be a Painting: Cicely Carew on What is Bitter and What is Sweet
Mallory A. Ruymann
Conversation
Words: What Are They Good For?
Gabriel Sosa and Danielle Abrams
Sonya Clark Pulls On the Threads of History
Olivia Kiers
Cristi Rinklin’s Recent Paintings Speak of Solitude, Anxiety, and Hope
Martina Tanga
Tiny Art for Uncertain Futures: A Conversation with Eben Haines of Shelter in Place Gallery
Change With(out) a Revolution: Where Institutions Fail Us
Jenna Crowder
Critical Perspective
How Cemeteries Are Being Transformed Into Sites for Public Art
Olivia Deng
Dislodging the Cultural Infrastructure of Indigenous Peoples’ Dispossession
Erin Genia, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Observation and Imagination: The Art of Evelyn Rydz
Jacqueline Houton
Feature
To the Thirteenth Floor: Thoughts on Plastics, Proximity, and Presence
Leah Triplett Harrington
Stay Safe, Stay Home: Road Text in a Time of Contagion
Alex Lukas
Artist Project
Blutopia
Shaka Dendy
Kai Grant: A Champion of Roxbury
Margo Gabriel
Revel in Black Excellence
Subversive Celebration: Photography of Black Joy and Healing in a Summer of Reckoning
Jonathan Rowe
Making Space for Gen Z: The Impact of Young Voices in Community Art Initiatives
Asiyah Herrera
Face to Face with Ayana Mack
Jacquinn Sinclair
Home Is a Place Called Bella
Christopher Streat
Embodying Art: The Black, Immigrant, and Queer Body on Display
slandie prinston
On Armor and Empowerment with Perla Mabel
Lex Weaver
Uprooting Truths and Painting them Boldly: In Conversation with Destiny Palmer
Elizabeth TiBlanc
Astro Returns to the Galaxies
Wayfinding Exhibition Expands the Critical Possibilities of Historic Maps as Artists Mine Archives at the Addison Gallery
Shana Dumont Garr
Review
A Dance Between Past and Present: Chantal Zakari’s “A Work in Progress” at Kingston Gallery
Karolina Hac
Sensing Growth in the Cracks: Beatrice Modisett at Montserrat College of Art Galleries
Lydia Gordon
Essay by Christopher Streat
Critical Perspective by Erin Genia, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Interview by Olivia Kiers
Feature by Jacqueline Houton
Interview by Mallory A. Ruymann
Critical Perspective by Asiyah Herrera
Interview by Margo Gabriel
Interview by Jameson Johnson
Review by Shana Dumont Garr
Conversation by Gabriel Sosa and Danielle Abrams
Profile by Jacquinn Sinclair
Critical Perspective by Jonathan Rowe
Review by Lydia Gordon
Review by Karolina Hac
